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To understand how gold deposits form it is useful to know the relationship between the time of deposit formation and that of sedimentation, volcanism, metamorphism, igneous intrusion, and deformation. Timing is the fourth characteristic that needs to be accommodated when understanding how gold deposits may form.
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Phillips, N. (2022). Timing of Deposit Formation. In: Formation of Gold Deposits. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, vol 21. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3081-1_7
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